Engineering Strategies for a Sustainable Food Supply Chain Workshop

Vast inefficiencies exist at every step of the supply chain of the global food industry. These inefficiencies lead to immense amounts of food loss and waste, with associated losses in natural, energy, and water resources resulting in adverse environmental and climate impacts. The solutions to these problems will need to be multi-faceted, with engineers playing a lead role in advancing the technological breakthroughs that will create economic drivers.

This 1.5 day workshop, funded by the United Engineering Foundation (UEF), united experts from several engineering disciplines together with experts in psychology, sociology, public policy, and economics, to explore the technological approaches to improving the sustainability of the food supply chain. It also:

Identified technical challenges, gaps and barriers for an efficient and sustainable food supply,

Examined case studies of impactful, cost-effective, and efficient technologies related to the food-energy-water nexus and impacts on the environment,